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    Deconstruction is a critical outlook that became prominent in the 1970s concerned with how the relationship between text and meaning. It aims to understand a text through various contexts. Jacques Derrida, who explained that there is no ultimate reality or end to references between signs, was influential. A key part of deconstruction examines binary oppositions, which are dichotomies that form evaluative hierarchies and underlie human practices, by looking at what is not present in a story through the dominant and non-dominant parts of these opposites.

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    Deconstruction is a critical outlook that became prominent in the 1970s concerned with how the relationship between text and meaning. It aims to understand a text through various contexts. Jacques Derrida, who explained that there is no ultimate reality or end to references between signs, was influential. A key part of deconstruction examines binary oppositions, which are dichotomies that form evaluative hierarchies and underlie human practices, by looking at what is not present in a story through the dominant and non-dominant parts of these opposites.

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    Deconstruction is a critical outlook that became prominent in the 1970s concerned with how the relationship between text and meaning. It aims to understand a text through various contexts. Jacques Derrida, who explained that there is no ultimate reality or end to references between signs, was influential. A key part of deconstruction examines binary oppositions, which are dichotomies that form evaluative hierarchies and underlie human practices, by looking at what is not present in a story through the dominant and non-dominant parts of these opposites.

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    Approaches to

    Literary Criticism
    21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
    Deconstruction
    • became a force in the 1970s
    • a critical outlook concerned with the relationship
    between text and meaning
    • can be described as an effort to understand a text
    through its relationships to various contexts
    Jacques Derrida
    • (1930-2004)
    • explained that there is no
    ultimate reality or end to
    all references from one
    sign to another, no
    unifying element to all
    things
    Binary Opposites
    • most important part of Deconstruction
    • used to look at what is not in a story
    • two parts of Binary Oppositions: a dominant and
    oppressed or non-dominant
    • dichotomies that are actually evaluative hierarchies
    and underlie human acts and practices

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